Charles P. Pierce, a regular blogger at Esquire, describes the Trump administration’s blatant indifference to a judge’s order to produce the hundreds of toddlers that were taken away fr...
Readers of this blog got the scoop a few days ago in the comment section, as reported by Christine Langhoff. But she did not have the English translation. Here it is in Politico: NO GO FOR PRIVATEL...
The signs and portents on Trump’s Choice for the Supreme Court are not good. Politico reports: WHAT KAVANAUGH MEANS FOR EDUCATION: D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump&r...
Imagine if you can, an “online agricultural school” for grades 7-12, where students might occasionally visit a farm, but such visits are not mandatory. The Fort Wayne Jounal-Gazette, on...
Tim Slekar got ticked off when he read that the Wisconsin State Journal referred to charters as “public schools.” They like to call themselves that to justify getting public money. But ...
The Democratic Party in Colorado and California have passed resolutions attacking Democrats for Education Reform as a phony, corporate-controlled front organization and demanded that it stop sullyi...
Now is a time when civility is needed more than ever, to keep our society from falling into hostile and warring camps. It is easy to call for civility but the lead should come from the President, a...
We have read many comments on this site ridiculing the possibility that Trump colluded with the Russians or that the Russians interfered in any way whatever in the 2016 election. It’s only fa...
Charter schools in Nevada are a national joke. They can fail and fail and fail, and the state doesn’t care. For charter schools, there is no accountability. CREDO Director Macke Raymond said ...
The world breathlessly watches as the Thai government’s seeks to rescue all of the 12 children and their coach trapped in a flooded cave, and cheer as each emerges, saved. At the same time, m...
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Education reporter and editor for the “Answer Sheet” at the Washington Post, Valerie Strauss published this piece June 29, 2018. For other views on donors’ initiatives and mishaps...
Looking back from my ninth decade, my career as an educator has been marked by many successes. But I cannot forget the failures I encountered. I began teaching high school in 1955, a goal I had pur...
Leigh McGuigan worked in district leadership roles in New York, Chicago, and Cleveland, He is now CEO and co-founder of Vertus High School. Addressed to Rick Hess, head of educational policy at the...
Unlike the Garfield cartoon, everyone makes decisions. Especially educators and CEOs. This month my gallery of cartoons look at different folks making decisions in and out of education, with...
In 2003, Microsoft Corporation went into a partnership with the Philadelphia public schools to build and staff a brand-new high school called “The School of the Future” in the middle of...
Historians have a unfortunate reputation for being wet blankets. Reformers propose a new idea or a program aimed at transforming what children or youth do in schools and some historian will say: &l...
Rick Hess is Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. This post appeared June 4, 2018. The introductory paragraph was omitted. …...
School is no longer an educational experience, but a constant struggle to survive. Dr. Virginia Uribe, speaking at Phillips Andover Academy, 1991 People don’t want to sit next to you in class...
On June 13, 2018. I was a member of a panel held at Mission High School during San Francisco Design Week. Software developers, and others who see themselves as designers of ed-tech pro...
First, West Virginia teachers in February 2018 went on strike and lobbied state legislators for higher salaries and more money for public schools. These protests were then followed by t...
When it comes to analyzing completion rates for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), it is important to address several measurement challenges.
In Palm Beach County, Florida, the school board is hoping to raise over $150 million a year in additional property tax revenues while preventing local charter schools from receiving any of the funds.
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) faces a debt of between $11-15 billion. How did the school district get itself into such a financial hole and what might it do to get out of it?
On the John Batchelor show, Paul E. Peterson talks about research on what happens when a school enrolls refugee students, and in particular, how this affects the non-refugee children who had alread...
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